Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 644

620 to

§

his

ORGANIC ARTICULATION

!i7.

made not by

education, which are

theology in

the organism of

ditions with

which

his office brings

advocated from many sides

cine, of agriculture, of

the school

question,

him

in touch,

and which of what

Only think about the knowledge

common

etc.,

the position of

the sciences, but by the con-

therefore cannot be mentioned is

[Div. Ill

here.

of medi-

law, of social conditions, of

as being of

service to the local

Questions with which, from the nature of the case, Encyclopedia cannot be concerned, since they have nothing

pastor.

to do with the nature of theology

But

and

its

organic relations.

the more formal propedeutics deserve, certainly, a brief

mention, especially the study of the languages, a matter which is not ended with the study of the two fundamental lan-

guages of the Scripture, the Hebrew and the Greek. For then It should rather be even Latin might safely be omitted. insisted upon that the languages be first studied from the general linguistic point of view, and then the question is in order, what are the special languages the knowledge of which

Without a clear, indispensable to the study of theology. general linguistic conception of language, one cannot truly enter into the knowledge of any one language. The pheis

nomenon

of

language as such is organically connected with and therefore all sound theology

theology in its principium,

presupposes an historic and critical insight into linguistics, Not, of course, graphistics and the philosophy of grammar. the claim It is indeed as though we should begin with this. of pedagogics to supply the eopia doctrinae during those years

which the memory is most plastic but in this review, which does not consider the course of studies, but the or-

in

;

ganic position of theology in the organism of science, the knowledge of language in general comes first. With respect to individual languages in particular, the mother-tongue fol-

lows organically first upon linguistics, because in this alone our immediate consciousness feels the pulse-beat of the life of language and the other modern languages have little con:

nection with theology, except in so far as they give us access Strictly to the products of theologic toil in other lands. taken, translation might do

away with

this necessity

;

since,

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